News and Curiosity

09-07-2003 :: 2 heads are better than 1...

The picture on the left isn't a trick photograph with a good software but this is a small two-headed tortoise found by a south African man: Noel Daniels a welder of Wellington. Two-headed tortoises...

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21-05-2003 :: Hurrah for the rabbit!

And now let's talk about curiosities a little bit more pleasant. Usually everybody knows the rabbit for its... reproductive abilities! In reality the poor animal is only a beginner as to a small...

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16-05-2003 :: What complex life!

The most primitive insects have a lifetime, from the egg to the adult, that takes place with stages during which the animal grows in dimension through moults, but it doesn't change its aspect. This...

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16-05-2003 :: The black-widow's waistcoat

Perhaps you asked yourselves if the hairy spiders in our catalogue are the notorius black widows, the first spider that generally we remember (at least in our country). Nothing at all! On the...

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12-05-2003 :: Sitting please!

    Through particular technics of naturalistic preparations, is possible to mount Arthropods or Vertebrates with the precise object to assure their intact preservation in the course...

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12-05-2003 :: Terror from the abyss

Always as regards the poisonous animals, also if spiders and scorpions will stand on the top of "hit parade" of the collective nightmares, almost each group of organisms can boast its ....

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12-05-2003 :: The Tarantula's streap-tease

The majority of our spiders are tarantulas. Should you ever think that tarantulas, when menaced, before to use their weapons, improvise a strange strip-tease? In practice they rub the last pair of...

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11-05-2003 :: Spider or... insect?

The animals near represented are three Arthropods, but two aren't Insects... which are they? A little aid: let you try to number the legs and the parts of body. The answer... to the next...

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